The Power of HERE!!!

Here is the Place we met

In the Corner, Lights out, darker than night

I noticed you cause you were Different

A light which shun so bright

Opening my eyes to my own complacency

I wasn't the prettiest and to top it off,

 I wasn't even smiling...How could I?

I just got Kicked out of a spelling bee

For failure to spell a four letter word.

L.O.V.E

Birthing an awareness you can't give what you do not Know

This four letter word like many others spoke of truths I wasn't proud of

N.E.E.D

H.E.L.P

Hands Clutched to my chest
Grabbing unto Hopes lost for reasons uncertain

Four letter words in your light 

I can finally see

P.A.S.T

P.A.I.N

Now you ask for another even more precious

T.I.M.E

Assuring me back on track

As If I would follow you back to basics

Here, You did not show me all the work needed to be done

Though you sang the beautiful melody of Vision and Mission

Distracting me with your peace,
Numbing me with your Love

As you cut through tumors formed by my own indiscretions
Here, You stitched me up and taught me to walk again

Orienting me to the fact that masses now lost
Were all a part of your Divine plan

You were Patient with me and watched me through
As I Swayed To and Fro Withdrawal and Relapse.
You rocked me to sleep chocking in my own tears of regret
Promising you could make it to count for something if I'd trust
And with no where else to turn I found it in me to spell another four letter word
A.M.E.N

Still laying in your arms
For the first time I heard your heartbeat
As I slowed down to catch up to the rhythm of your breath
Understanding, if for the first time we were in SYNC
I  had a shot at getting it right
I  had a shot to be who you created me to be and in turn put a smile on your face
Cause after all I put you through, you too deserve to Smile

Smile when I choose to run instead of walk
Run to Catch up on the Miles I missed out on
And Like Elijah you'll give me the grace to breeze past chariots
Running into your Presence
The place where it's only You and I
That place where I present to you this Poem, Cause it is for you
And though these words,It's you who blesses me with
I rededicate them to you

Here, I stand before the world,
Though Audience unseen
And with me,I bring two witnesses
This Keyboard and this Screen
That they may watch as I declare my love and gratitude to you
Cause the first time I saw,you were  first in sight
And despite my mess,You Smiled
That picture remains in the deepest part of me
And I am determined to make it up to you
Not just for being my God
But for being Everyone else's
Whether we RECOGNIZE it or not.